Mohammed Abdelaziz

Polisario leader Brahim Ghali for decades the Sahrawi guerrilla forces' commander before taking over as Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) President after Mohammed Abdelaziz's death in 2016 announced on 14 November a 'resumption of armed struggle in defence of the legitimate rights of our people...

The death of its president for 40 years Mohammed Abdelaziz in May 2016 brought in another veteran of the struggle Brahim Ghali...

Following the death in May of its President for 40 years Mohammed Abdelaziz Polisario has replaced one ageing leader with another 70-year-old Brahim Ghali its former Defence Minister...

Algiers and Polisario backed by important allies such as South Africa reject such arguments on the grounds that that full independence remains the only way ahead under Polisario's Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and its President (since 1976) Mohammed Abdelaziz...

Under pressure Polisario Secretary General Mohamed Abdelaziz has recently defended the Sahrawi people’s right to resort to armed conflict to achieve a fully independent Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)...

Saharan gambit Polisario Front leader and Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) President Mohamed Abdelaziz who has led the Saharawi independence movement for 30 years is looking for progress on a referendum in the former Spanish Sahara...

Taya has a big interest in a well executed solution to the Saharan question: a new conflict or an outcome that squeezed the Polisario leadership to an extent where Saharawi President Mohammed Abdelaziz felt constrained to look for alternative boltholes in the region would directly affect Nouakchott...

On the 25th anniversary of Polisario's declaration of independence president-in-waiting Mohammed Abdelaziz watched a parade of ageing Algerian-financed military hardware in the desert outside Tindouf and predictably rejected the third way...

Taya has long kept a discreet distance from Saharan Arab Democratic Republic leader Mohammed Abdelaziz - and privately Nouakchott now seems to endorse Rabat's view that the disputed territory which it once helped to rule is a province of Morocco...

Front leader Mohammed Abdelaziz hints at renewed fighting if a referendum is not held soon...